The Emerging Face
An Emerging Face Spirit Doll. In early January I was invited to attend a creative meditation class and the medium was to be felted wool spirit dolls, I was intrigued. Never having worked with fibers, let alone doll making I was very excited to see what would unfold. It has been quite a journey; working with the materials, learning the techniques, and the creative process itself. Who knew using a barbed needle to stab wool repeatedly into a form would be so freeing? Little did I realize the spiritual conversation that would take place as faces began to emerge from the wool... Spirit doll congregation after first class. Mine is the oddly shaped 2 headed one on the far right. The wonderfully talented instructor and artist, Andi Fasimpaur, took us first through the early stages of the doll making; binding thick batting into the basic shape with thread, carding different colors of wool together and then, using the long, barbed needle stabbin...